Essay about So Much to Tell You

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The novel, ‘So Much To Tell You’ by John Marsden explores the concept of growth and change through the character, Marina, and her struggle to become whole. The contrast of Marina’s character from the beginning of the novel to the end portrays her development during her journey to heal. The composer uses techniques to convey Marina’s growth and change throughout the novel.
Initially, Marina is isolated and detached from the world she once knew. She begins in a tone harsh and cold. “It would stay a cold and empty book, with no secrets.” Her tone is blunt as she describes herself as the “nut case, the psycho with the deformed face” and the “silent freak” suffering from “anorexia of speech”. The main aspect isolating Marina from growing and…show more content…

THEY HATE EVERYONE! THEY HATE EACH OTHER!” She uses her journal as the voice she is unable to find to bring her opinion across. However, this belief is contrasted to her later thoughts. “It was really touching... I think I scored the wrong family.” It portrays the large effect the school has made on Marina’s change.
Marina grows and changes from her fragmented shell as she observes and builds relationships with those at the boarding school. The use of contrast emphasises Marina’s growth in trust with those around her. “I’m starting to feel mildly safe. That’s dangerous, I’d better be careful.” Her change is evident as she later writes, “I suppose I do trust them a bit, yet when I came to this place I was so determined never to trust anyone.”
Initially, Marina is determined to remain aloof towards her peers. “Some of them tried a bit... But I gave my famous impression of a cockroach and that put them off.” However, this idea is contrasted as she begins to build relationships and makes effort to forge friendships, particularly with Cathy and Lisa. “I hope you have a Happy Birthday and I wish you love.” Marina characterises Lisa as a “cold, Scandinavian, marble mountain”. This further contributes to Marina’s shock as she discovers Lisa crying. “People have cried in the dorm before... But never Lisa.” Marina expresses her urge to comfort Lisa, though she is unable to. “One day, I’ll tell her how terrible I felt... I couldn’t do anything about it.” This event changes

different roles in advertising. Men are exposed as the dominant figure, while women on the other hand are represented as weak and/or objects. For example one puts the sex in "unisex" quite like American Apparel. In some of their unisex clothing ads you can quickly spot the dramatic difference between the male and female versions of the same outfits. Women were shown pant less and crawling, while men were simply hanging out and looking relatively normal. This is a prime example of how women are principally…

tomorrow is not guaranteed. If I Could Tell You by W. H. Auden is a villanelle much like others using rhyme, repetition, and meter, that revolve around the main idea of the continuity time and its unforeseeable nature.
The rhyming of the alternating ending lines, “Time will say nothing but I told you so” (1) and “If I could tell you I would let you know” (3) keep the rhyme scheme which stays on the central themes. “Time will say nothing but i told you so” shows that time keeps going, because this…

PROJECT FOCUS:
You are interested in deploying sensor technology in the cafe to help revamp operations. How would you address the following:
* Many cafes are putting sensors on the bottom of cups to help alert the wait staff that a customer needs a refill. Would you introduce this technology to the cafe? If so, are there any concerns with using this type of technology?
* What other types of sensors could you deploy throughout the cafe to help operations? What concerns would you have regarding…

Shady Bahsoun
Amst 276
December 8,2009
Research Paper #2
âTell me what you eat, and Iâll tell you who you areâ
âTell me what you eat, and Iâll tell you who you areâ once said French lawyer and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. With the growth of food import/export around the world and the opportunities of expansion in foreign coutries: Could Brillat-Savarinâs statement still be possible today or has it completely lost ground? Food is one of the fields in which globalization…

The novel, ‘So Much To Tell You’ by John Marsden explores the concept of growth and change through the character, Marina, and her struggle to become whole. The contrast of Marina’s character from the beginning of the novel to the end portrays her development during her journey to heal. The composer uses techniques to convey Marina’s growth and change throughout the novel.
Initially, Marina is isolated and detached from the world she once knew. She begins in a tone harsh and cold. “It would stay…

Jordan Williams
Sara Howe
English 101
17 September 2010
“So Much Water So Close To Home”
In So Much Water So Close To Home, Raymond Carver explores the hardships that society brings upon us by using dialogue and character development to reveal that men and women alike have difficulty reconciling the differences in ethical and moral values. Carver is able to do this by relating to topics that demonstrate the character’s difference in morality. These include such things as death, gender stereotypes…

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The one question you hear all the time as a little kid is “what do you want to be when you grow up.” Most children give the same three answers: doctor, lawyer, or astronaut. The adult who asked the question usually replies with a little chuckle underneath their breath because they know what achieving one of these prestigious jobs entail. In today’s world only the elite will ever have a chance of receiving such an astounding career opportunity. Now, looking back at the top three answers given by…

not getting batter as the time goes. Growing inequality is the one of the biggest and most challenging social and economic changes that we have to make. People’s concern these days is inequality about the fact that richest 1% in United States have so much more than anybody else in America, and the fact that a lot of people are suffering from the poverty in United States. Today, the rate of people becoming homeless has increased enormously than it was in past few years, and it seems like the focus is…

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. We've all heard the saying, but what does it mean? We are different, that goes without saying. As evidenced in Raymond Carver's "So Much Water, So Close to Home", men and women differ on many key issues of morality, perception, and judgment. The two do have something in common, believe it or not, and that is the expectation of the opposite gender to communicate, think, and react in the exact way they do. Hence, frustration. Not with themselves, God forbid…